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THOMAS BATES' HISTORY 



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THE DUCHESS FAMILY, 



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OORRESPONDE]^[CE OF MR. BATES AW JOHN PARKmSON. 



lilST OF FIRST PRIZS: WINNERS FROM 1839 TO 1863, IN ENOLAND, 
AND PRIZE XI^INNERS N. Y. STATE FAIRS, FROM 1841 TO 1863. 



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VAN BENTHUYSEN'S STEAM PRINTING HOUSE. 
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THOMAS BATES' HISTORY 



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THE DUCHESS FAMILY, 



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CORRESPOKDEICE OF MR. BATES AND JOHN PARKINSON. 



LIST OF FIRST PRIZE WINNERS FROM 1839 TO 1863, IN ENGLAND. 
AND PRIZE WINNERS N.Y. STATE FAIRS, FROM 1841 TO 1862. 



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VAN BENTHUTSEN'S STEAM PRINTING HOUSE. 
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SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



As a part of the history of Short-horns, we have fortunately obtained a 
copy of the correspondence between Thomas Bates and John Parkinson in 
1842. 

Mr. Bates gives a full account of the Duchess family, including the Duke 
of " Northumberland," (1940,) bred by him in 1835. Mr. Bates' Duchess 
1st was purchased originally from Charles Colling, at his sale in 1810. 
Charles Colling had the family in his possession from 1184, his original cow 
having been bought of the agent of the Duke of Northumberland — and this 
cow was called "Duchess" by Mr. Colling — (155) No. 1, by Comet. This 
letter of Mr. Bates gives a full account of the Duchess family, up to the 
date of his letter in 1842. 

FIRST CLASS PRIZE WINNERS FROM 1839 TO 1863. 

In connection with this correspondence we give the pedigrees and his- 
tory of the prize bulls and cows of the first class, from 1839 to 1863, as 
published in Bell's Weekly Messenger to 1862; and we have added the 
prize animals of 1863. B. P. J. 

Mr. Bates' Celebrated Prize Animals, the " Duchess" and the 
" Duke of Northumberland." 

To the Editor of the New Farmers^ Journal: 

Sir — herewith I send you the pedigree of my Short-horn bull, " Duke of 
Northumberland," as described in the "Herd-book," (1940, in 3d volume,) 
and which is as follows: 

Color roan, calved October 15th, 1835; got by Belvidore (1706), dam 
(Duchess 34th, page 356 of volume 3d of "Herd-book,") by Belvidere 
^ (1706), g. d. (Duchess 29th) by second Hubback (1423), gr. g d. (Duchess 
20th) by the Earl (1511), gr. gr. g. d. (Duchess 8th) by Marzke (413), gr. 
gr. gr. g. d. (Duchess 2d) by Thelton 1st (709), gr. gr. gr. gr. g. d. (Duchess 
1st, bred by Mr. Charles Colling,) by Comet (155), — [this cow was bought 
by me at Mr. C. Colling's sale, at Thelton, near Darlington, in 1810, J — gr. 
gr. gr. gr. gr. g. d. by Favorite (252), gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. g. d. by Daisy 
bull (186), — [this cow was also bought of Mr. G. Colling by me in 1804,] — 
gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. g. d. by Favorite (252), gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. 
gr. g. d. by Hubback (319), gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. g. d. [bought 
by Mr. C. Colling, from Stanvvix, in 1784, of the late Duke of Northumber- 
land's agent,J by Mr. James Brown's old red bull (97.) 

The whole of this family of Short-horns are alone in my possession, having 
purchased my original cow of this tribe of cattle of the late Charles Colling, 
Esq., then of Thelton, near Darlington, thirty-eight j^ears ago. They had 
been in the possession of Mr. C. Colling twent}'^ years, who purchased his ori- 
ginal cow, from Stanwis, of the agent of the late Duke of Northumberland 
and Mr. C. Colling named her "Duchess," (which name I have continued,) 



and when the first "Herd-book" was prepared I called the Duchess by 
Comet (155), No. 1, The Duke's dam, Duchess 34th, is the oldest cow I 
have of the familj^, and the " Duke " was her first calf. She has had eight 
calves, and is, I hope, ag-ain in calf to the "Duke," her eldest son. She 
was calved September 14, 1832, and in her tenth year she obtained the 
highest prize at the Yorkshire Society's late exhibition, at York, in August 
last, as the best cow of any age, the only time she was ever exhibited. 
Her daughter, Duchess 43d, obtained the premium as the best year old 
heifer at the Oxford meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 
in 1839. Her eldest brother, the "Duke," obtaining at the same meeting 
the premium as the best bull of any age, being then three years and eight 
montlis old; and the sister in blood to the Duke's dam obtained at the same 
time the premium as the best heifer in calf, though then only a year old. 
The Duke's own sister was then also in calf; and these same two heifers 
M'ere awarded the first and second premiums at the Yorkshire Society's ex- 
hibition at Hull, in August, 1841, as the best three year old cows. The 
" Duke" also obtained (he highest premium as the best two-years old bull, 
at the Yorkshire Society's first exhibition at York, in 1838, and premiums 
likewise at Stockton and Darlington, the same year (1838), as the best bull 
of any age, and obtained the highest premium as the best bull of any age 
at the late York meeting in August last. He never has been exhibited but 
upon the above five occasions. 

I named tliis bull " Duke of Northumberland," to perpetuate the com- 
memoration, that it is to the judgment and attention of the ancestors of the 
present Duke of Northumberland tliat this country, and the world, are 
indebted for a tribe of cattle which Mr. C. Colling repeatedly assured me 
teas the best he ever had or ever saw, and that his first cow of this tribe was 
better than any he could produce from her, tliough put to his best bulls, 
which improved all other cattle; and this tribe oH Short-horns was in the 
possession of the ancestors of the present Duke for two centuries; and Sir 
Hugh Smj'thson, the grandfather of the present Duke, kept up the celebrity 
of this tribe of cattle, by paying the greatest attention to their breeding. 
He used, a century ago, regularly to weigh his cattle and the food they 
ate, so as to a^^certain the improvement made in proportion to the food con- 
sumed. This was before Mr. Bakewell was known as a superior breeder of 
stock, and this sj^stem I adopted above fifty years ago, not knowing that 
it had been previously done, and it was from the knowledge thus acquired 
by weighing the food consumed, and ascertaining the improvement made, 
that I became enabled to judge of the realmerits of animals by their external 
characters, and in my experience, as a breeder, I have never found it to fail. 
From that knowledge, thus acquired, I selected this tribe of Short-horns, as 
superior to all other cattle, not only as small consumers, but as great 
growers and quick graziers, with the finest quality of beef. Mr. C. Colling 
exhibited at Darlington, in the spring of 1799, his two first calves by his 
bull Favorite, (252) a heifer and a steer, (afterwards known as the Dur- 
ham ox, and exhibited for six years by Mr. John Day), then each three 
years old. The heifer was of this Duchess family, and she was larger than 
the steer, and exceeded him in every point, and on being slaughtered the 
following week, weighed above 100 stones, of 14 lbs. per stone; but her 



great excellence consisted in the superior quality of her beef. She was 
uniformly covered with fat on ever}^ part. Mr. Robert Thompson, then of 
Chillingham Barns, in Northumberland, (whose superior judgment in Short- 
horns and Leicestershire sheep no one ever questioned) was at Darlington 
that day, and we repeatedly met each other at this heifer, both agreeing 
that she far exceeded any animal we had ever seen at her age. Finding 
that tribe of cattle were equally extraordinary as great milkers, induced 
me afterwards to purchase my first Duchess, then in calf by Favorite, of 
my bull Shelton 1st, and her daughter, and afterwards at the sale in 1840, 
the granddaughter. My first Duchess calved at llalton Castle, in North- 
umberland, June 7th, 1807; she was kept on grass only, in a pasture with 
nineteen other cows, and made in butter and milk for some months above 
two guineas per week, or forty-two shillings English money. 

As a proof that this tribe of Short-horns have improved under my care, I 
may mention that " Duke of Northumberland's" dam consumes one third less 
food than my first Duchess (purchased in 1804), and her milk yields one- 
third more butter for each quart of milk ; and, whilst the consumption of 
food is one third less, and the milk yields one-third more butter, there is 
also a greater growth of carcass, and an increased aptitude to fatten. 
"The Duke's" dam, Duchess 34th, was found with her right leg broken 
below the knee, when on grass, before she was a year old, and was (in 
consequence) confined in the house, and was not able to bear her weight 
on this leg for near nine months afterwards, thus preventing any im- 
provements for that length of time, and is a cow that never has been in- 
dulged at any period ; for some years scarce ever tasting a turnip in the 
winter months, and yet preserving her condition, and breeding regularly. 

It is now about sixty years since I became impressed with the import- 
ance of selecting the very best animals to breed from, and for twenty-five 
years afterwards lost no opportunity of ascertaining the merits of the 
various tribes of Short-horns, and it was only then that this could be done, 
as there is scarce a vestige remaining of the many excellent cattle that 
were then in existence. I have never used any bull that had not Duchess 
blood, since I became possessed of this tribe, without perceiving, im- 
mediately, the error — except Belvidere (1706), and he v/as the last bull of 
a long race of well-descended Short-horns, whose blood (in the Princess 
cow) went direct from Ilubback (319) to Favorite (252) — as in the Duchess 
tribe, and in Yarborough's dam (second Hubback's blood, 1423) — and 
these are the only three tribes of Short-horns that were so bred as females 
(and Mr. R. Colling's white bull the only male, being of the Princess 
family) — and all these three tribes, so bred, are united in the dam of the 
Duke of Northumberland — and there are no other Short-horns so bred. 
Tlie superiority of the stock of Mr. R. Colling's white bull over Favorite's 
stock, (252), his sire, was evident to me in 1804 — and was admitted by 
Mr. C. Colling, and I would gladly have then given 100 guineas to have 
had my first Duchess bulled by him, but I could not obtain it on any terms, 
and it was 27 years afterwards before I obtained the same blood in 
Belvidere (1706), the last pure blood of that tribe of Short-horns. For the 
last 35 years I have paid little attention to the subject, but the matter was 
as perfectly fixed in my remembrance as that of the pence or multiplica- 



tion tables ; nor have I had cause to alter any opinion I then formed, and 
each revolvinjj year has given me additional proof that the judgment I 
formed 35 years ago was correct in every particular. From 1805. when the 
T3niedale Ward Agricultural Society was formed, till 1812, 1 exhibited cat- 
tle at their Ovingluun shows, and my success, even with inferior animals 
of my breeding, is yet well remembered, but I never showed my first 
Duchess, nor her son, Kelton 1st ; and from 1812 till the York first meet- 
ing, in 1838, I never showed any cattle at public exhibitions (26 j^ears be- 
tween) ; and it was witli great reluctance that I again did so, well know- 
ing what I had seen practiced at public meetings ; but I consented, at the 
ni'gent request of a then stranger, who happened unintentionally to have 
seen my cattle when buying horses of my tenants, and I exhibited seven 
Short-horns for eight premiums at York, in 1838, and, though five 
premiums were awarded to them, the three best animals were rejected ; 
and then I sent the next year to the Royal English Agricultural Society's 
first meeting at Oxford, expecting those placed before them at York would 
have again made their appearance at that exhibition ; but none of those 
appeared, and all my three rejected at York obtained the highest premiums ; 
the fourth (the cow) I there obtained the premium for was placed second at 
York, as a three year old, to one of my own, which got her thigh broke in 
the field, or she would have gone to Oxford instead of the one I did send. 

I have entered thus into detail, to answer ^objections, by quoting facts, to 
prove that this tribe of cattle have not had a recent origin ; and, though 
the best cow then in existence, when I purchased ray first Duchess, I have 
yet improved upon her, while all other Short-horns then in existence have 
been getting worse and worse, year by year. 

Impressed with the importance of the subject of improving the live 
stock, from my attention to it, I addressed a printed letter, in 1807, to the 
Board of Agriculture, and all other agricultural societies ; but I met with 
the most violent opposition. I trust the spirit of inquiry is at length 
awakened by the formation of the Royal English Agricultural Society, and 
that thus the large landed proprietors of the United Kingdoms will direct 
that attention to the subject which it deserves, and which their own 
interest so evidently requires. It is only by the amelioration of the live 
stock that expensive improvements can be prudently undertaken ; this 
once made evident, the increase of green crops to rear and fatten the live 
stock, furnishes the manure that increases the produce of grain crops, and 
adds not only to the increased wealth of the nation, and to its increased 
population, rendering these kingdoms thereby indeijendent of a foreign sup- 
ply of the necessaries of life, and of those great fluctuations in price which 
inevitably have ever followed a foreign supply, increasing the wealth of 
the importers for a time, and generally ending in their ruin, whenever a 
kind Providence sends a fruitful season. 

As the post hour draws near I must conclude, to enable you to print 
this letter in the same paper in which you purposed inserting the portraits 
of "The Duke" and his dam. 

I do not expect any artist can do them justice. They must be seen, and 
the more they are examined the more their excellence will appear to a true 



connoisseur; but there are few good judges — hundreds may be found to 
make a prime minister, for one fit to judge the real merits of animals. 
In great haste I remain yours truly, 

THOMAS BATES. 
KiRKLEviNGTON, NEAR YARii, YORKSHIRE, November 11th, 1842. 

Short-Horns. 

MR. BATES AND MR. PARKINSON. 
(From the Farmers' Journal of November 25, 1844.) 

The following paragraph appeared in our colunms of Monday, November 
11th, headed Short-Horns. We republish it, that our readers may see to 
what Mr. Bates is replying : 

" Short-horns. — Mr. Bates having lately expressed himself veiy strongly 
against the merit of ' Ci-amer,' by Sir Thomas Fairfax (5196) dam ' Cassan- 
dra,' by Miracle (2320), to Mr. Banks Stanhope, his owner offered to show 
that bull against any of Mr. Bates' bulls, under nine years old, at the next 
meeting of the Yorkshire Society, at Beverly; and Mr. Parkinson, the 
breeder of Cramer, proposed also to show against Mr. Bates' thirty Short- 
horned cattle, each on their respective farms; and although it was declared, 
in each instance, that the terms of showing might be such as Mr. Bates 
considered unobjectionable, he has declined exhibiting in either case." — 

Co7Tespo7ident. 
To the Editor of the Farmers' Journal : 

Sir — I was not a little surprised to see in your paper of yesterday, just 
received, an article headed "Short-Horns," which I presume has been sent 
you by Mr. Parkinson, or some one through him, as it refers to a letter 
wrote to him. However, having preserved a copy of my letter, I herewith 
send it you for insertion in your next week's paper, that your readers 
may know what I really did say to Mr. Parkinson. 

I am, &c., THOMAS BATES. 

KiRKLEviNGTON, NEAR Yarm, November 12, 1844. 

"To John Parkinson, Esq., Leyfields, near Neioark: 

"Sir — Your letter of the 10th instant having been (as stated on the back 
by some postmaster) missent, only reached me this morning. You are 
wrong in stating that I have written to disparage your Short-horned cattle 
generally. 1 do not knoio your Sliort-horned cattle generally. In respect to 
particular blood, whether of yours or belonging to other persons, which I 
have known, I have ever spoken and written of it as my experience con- 
vinced me. I have done the same forty years ago, which I presume was 
before you were a Short-horned breeder (as I presume yow are a son of 
Mr. Parkinson, the owner of Sir Thomas Fairfax, and I think I so spoke 
of that bull to him long before he was the purchaser.) What I said to Mr. 
Stanhope I said for his good. If he has not taken it so, I cannot help it; 
fui'ther experience may convince him as it has others, who have acknow- 
ledged to me afterwards that they found I was right, though they did not 
think so when I gave my opinion. I did so then for the good of those I 
spoke to, and not to disparage, as you suppose. It is not the first time that 



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my motives have been miscnncelved. As to accepting challenges, I have 
always declined to do so, except when any great object was to be attained 
as a public advantage. After exhibiting successfully for years together, fof 
twenty -six years I never exhibited any cattle, and the best at that time 
(above thirty years ago), are now nearly extinct, and all I said of them 
has proved true, and such will be the case again of the stock that has 
sprung up unknown forty years ago, In so saying, I neither intend offend- 
ing you or any one, but barely expressing my opinion founded on an expe- 
rience of above sixty years. 

" I trust I have said enough to convince you that I have no ill-will to you 
in anj'thing I have said. 

" Perhaps this may induce me in future both to decline showing as well 
as speaking of stock, as my object has been, by so doing, to benefit others 
and not myself. I remain, &c., 

"THOMAS BATES. 

" Ktrklevington, near Yarm, October 14, 1844." 

To the Editor of the Farmers' Journal: 

Sir — Since I wrote to you the above letter, I have your communication, 
saying " That it would afford you great pleasure to insert any reply from 
me to the article headed Short-horns, which appeared in the Farmer'' s Jour- 
nal of the nth inst." Relying, therefore, on this assurance I shall en- 
deavor to compress a few remarks in as short a compass as time will admit, 
to send you by this day's post. 

In the first place I must state why I made any remarks at all on the bull 
"Cramer." Mr. Banks Stanhope called upon me wath Mr. Budding, a 
neighbor of his, whom I had often had the pleasure of seeing here, and Mr. 
Banks Stanhope wishing to purchase two cows of me, each having a cross 
of the bull Norfolk (2371), in Herd Book 3d volume; and as I had fed off 
Norfolk's dam, and had found her the worst grazer I had fed for above forty 
years, I told him I sold them because I objected to that blood being in them, 
and asked a less price than I otherwise would have done had they been 
free of that blood. A pretty strong proof that I objected to that blood, 
and did not hesitate to say so, to my own disadvantage — but these two 
cows had since a cross with my "Duchess blood," which had greatly 
restored their former high merit — and wishing not to see that valuable 
blood again deteriorated, I asked Mr. Banks Stanhope what bull he meant 
to put to them, and not thinking well of "Cramer's" blood neither in sire 
or dam's side, I said, I had much rather he sent the cows, if he bought 
them, to any one of my own bulls, leaving him the choice of such bulls, 
and that he should have them served gratuitously rather than that they 
should be put to "Cramer," as he said "Cramer" was the bull he used; in 
so saying I had no intention, nor was I the least aware that offence would 
be taken at my offer — which was done on my part both in kindness to Mr. 
B. S., and to improve further the stock he was about buying; and as a 
proof that I am improving even upon the Duke of Northumberland's daugh- 
ters, I have sold a heifer calf out of his daughter, at more money than I 
asked for the dam (this calf in her belly at the time) this time twelve- 
month. And as I thought this cow better than the two he wished to pur- 



cliase, I offered her at the same price I asked last year in calf, and again 
in calf, to the same bull as last year, but Mr. B. S. said he did not like the 
cow and no more was said about her. 

Now, in the autumn of 1843, Mr. Parkinson, Sen., saw one of his prize 
heifers shown at York in a sixteen acre iicld, as I durst not put any other 
cattle in, as this herfer had, previously to coming' here, had the prevailing 
epidemic. I had granted the gentleitian the privilege of sending her to 
one of my bulls, he liaving bought a bull calf of me some months previous 
to asking to have this heifer bulled; she had perfectly recovered of the 
epidemic before she came here, and looked well about her, but made no 
growth. Mr. Parkinson, Sen., (for I presume the Mr. Parkinson w^ho wrote 
to me was the son of the purchaser of Sir Thomas Fairfax), remarked she 
liad made no growth though she had so large and so good a pasture (hav- 
ing some other j^ears carried sixteen head of my own breed of cattle, instead 
of only one, and the summer of 1843 was a good grass year). This showed 
candor on the part of Mr. Parkinson, Sen., pointing out the defect of the 
heifer, "ivant, of growth," though of his own breeding and a prize animal. 

When I wrote my letter to Mr. P., Jr., (tlie copy thereof sent for your 
insertion by a former post) I did hope he might have possessed somewhat 
of his father's candor, and was not the least aware he meant to bring the 
subject before the public eye, as he has done, not in his own name, but 
sheltered under the word "Correspondent." Now before I write more, I beg 
pointedly to say, I will not again reply to any feigned signature. If my 
remarks should induce Mr. P., Jr., to reply hereto, let him have the manli- 
ness to put his name to it, and he shall have a rejoinder as long as he 
pleases to bring the subject before the public, and you, as Editor, choose 
to give your columns gratuitously to the subject, and he may call the whole 
world to aid him in his reply. It is with great reluctance that I make thi.s 
declaration, from a dislike to controversy, but " Correspondent," for such is 
the signature 1 have to reply to, says, "I have declined the offers of Mr. 
Banks Stanhope and Mr. Parkinson, Jr." I did so because I saw no good 
likely to arise therefrom. If I had accepted this challenge then every 
young, ignorant, conceited, purse-proud coxcomb, who began short-horn 
breeding without knowing in what a good Short-horn consisted, would 
probably have sent me such like challenge, and surely the public cannot 
expect that I should accept such challenges. 

If the parties under the signature of " Correspondent" wish to have the 
demerits of the blood of " Cramer," I can furnish them with plenty to their 
hearts content. In the room where this is written a breeder from the same 
blood 1 object to in this animal, declared to me he had lost more than ten 
thousand pounds by breeding Short-horns, and he began with one of the 
best tribes of Short-horns then in existence, before Mr. Robert Colling went 
to Brampton, and he was some years at Brampton before he and his brother 
Charles began to breed Short-horns; and the Short-horns at Brampton, 
before Mr. R. Ceiling's day, were better than any he ever bred. 

Now, this instance is not a solitary one, for two near neighbors of mine, 
when I lived at Halton Castle, in Northumberland, had the hardiest and 
best constitutioned stock of Short-horns, and they were two very large 
herds, and very prolific up to 1811, and the one lost all his calves but two, 

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and from the same blood as " Cramer," and it was for two years in succes- 
sion. The other breeder's Short-horns all lived, but the former always said 
he was the g'reatest g'ainer of the two, for the latter person's stock became 
the most delicate, disthriving' cattle that I ever saw, and continued so for 
above ten years, till they at last, many of them, died out, or would have 
done so, had they not been slaughtered; and till this cross no stock could 
be more hardy than they were, and such has been the case wherever I have 
known that blood enter any wcl]-desc(!nded herd of Short-horns. AVith 
inferior, coarse, ill-bred cattle, such may g-o on; and many breedei's, hav- 
ing this same blood, have resorted to coarse, ill-bred Short-horned cattle to 
try to restore their delicate constitutions; and this has filled the country 
with the very worst breed of cattle, called improved Short-horns, which 
now so generally prevails, and has brought, judly, a discredit upon Short- 
horns — for it is such as these that have ruined many breeders, and destroyed 
many a valuable herd; and I might fill all the columns of your paper by 
reciting instances — such as the blood of " Cramer," on his dam's side. 

I shall now state my objections to the sire of "Cramer," Sir Thomas 
Fairfax (5196.) When I saw at Mr. Whittaker's his bull, called Fairfax (1023), 
the predecessor of Sir Thomas Fairfax, I asked him if he had ever used 
that bull, and he clenched his fist, turned round tome, and, with great vehe- 
mence, said : " Do you think I would use a bull of a tribe that do not give 
a drop of milk ? I have never used him, nor ever will to my herd of Short- 
horns." Mr. Whittaker further told me that the great grand-dam of Fair- 
fax bull was a cow between a blue and a black color ; that she was bought 
for him by a jobber, who said that he had bought her at Stockton, and Mr. 
Whittaker desired me at difl'erent times to try and make out her pedigree, 
if she had one. I made many inquiries for many years, but no person ever 
heard of this blue-black cow. I was repeatedl}^ told that she could not have 
been a Short-horn for they never knew a Short-horn of that color. Let 
Mr. Whittaker deny these facts, if he dare ! 

On Sir Thomas Fairfax being knocked down to Mr. Parkinson at a pub- 
lic sale, he said afterwards to me : "You don't approve of this blood, I 
know." And I replied: "Certainly not." And wl)en Mr. Booth told me 
he had sold his half of Sir Thomas Fairfax to Mr. Parkinson, sen., I con- 
gratulated him thereon; he was not offended no inore than Mr. Parkinson, 
sen., and they must thank " Corret^pondent" in yonr journal for this disclo- 
sure I now make. 

When it was fruitless making any more inquiries respecting this blue- 
black cow, Mr. Whittaker put her down, svjjposed by Chapman' s son of 
Punch, but without any evidence whatever. 1 give this as an instance of 
pedigree manufacturing almost as lucrative a trade as cotton manufactur- 
ing, and carried on at the present day with unblushing effrontery. 

It is not three years ago I went to see a stock advertised for sale, and 
they were all stated in the catalogue of the sale to be descended from one 
animal, whose represented sire I had used. And he was cut when he left 
nie, and I saw him soon after being castrated. The parties whose stock 
was for sale were honest, upright characters, and told me the year their 
father bought the calf ; I told them I had had the use of that bull, and had 



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seen him cut, after liaving- had the use of him one year, but that was more 
than six years beftn-e this calf was calved. They assured me they were 
totally ignorant thereof, but that the person they had appointed as auc- 
tioneer assured them such was the case. On the day of sale, on the auc- 
tioneer arriving, he called me out to a private place and told me he was as 
certain of the fact as he was of his own existence of the bull they were 
descended from, and I have little doubt he would have taken his oath it was 
true, although he had proof given him by an eye-witness of the fact, that 
the bull was castrated above six years before the calf was calved ; and 
then turning round, and pointing to the large company that was assem- 
bled, he said : " You see what a company I have brought together, and 
what a high sale I will make by my pedigrees of this sale." And the same 
auctioneer has continued the same pedigree to the same animals since he 
was certain it was a fabrication. I mention this, by the way, to guard 
persons against the prevailing practice of pedigree-making. 

This hlue-hlach cow, to which 1 referred above, was put to a bull bred 
from a Galloway polled, or hornless {without horns), cow, aBd had yet a 
worse cross than this polled Galloway cow; for the Short-horn blood in the 
cross was one of the hardest skinned and worst handlers I ever felt, and 
gave no milk worth noticing. Now, I would ask " Correspondent'' seri- 
ously, whether he can, from such blood, expect to breed good Short-horns ? 
The dam of Sir Thomas Fairfax was a bought cow, not bred by Mr. Whit' 
taker, and where can he find any good animals of note in any of her pre- 
decessors ? 

By extra feeding the worst of animals maybe forced forward; to gain the 
applause of incompetent judges, there wants no proof; but how they are 
fed, whether on Indian corn, which I have never used, or what other forcing 
keep, we are not told, but this I am certain of, that a cow, the Rev. Mr. 
Berry said produced 16 quarts per meal, or twice a day, of milk at Mr. 
Whittaker's, never produced more than four quarts, or one-fourth of the 
quantity, going in my cow pasture at Kirklevington, and that immediately 
after calving. 

Having furnished Mr. Whittaker with very many valuable Short horns, 
some at less than a tenth of their value, and not a twentieth part of the 
cost of what he had paid for much worse animals, and in vain urged him 
to send them to my second Hubback that he might see the diiierence 
between his produce and that of Frederick, (26t in first volume of Herd 
Book, and 1016 in the second volume of Herd Book.) He wished me to 
buy Gambier (2046) of him, being by Bertram, and having the Daisy blood, 
and from Lady Matilda, the highest priced cow bought at Mr. Charge's 
sale in 1828; I did so, and paid him double the price that I paid for Belvi- 
dere (1706 in third volume of Herd Book), which I bought soon after; and 
having both bulls in use at the same time, and having eight steers by each 
bull, I kept the sixteen together invariably on the same keep till the 19th 
of October, 1835, after they were two years old, when, for want of keep, I 
sent the eight by Gambier to Yarm fair, and they were sold at £12 12s. 
each. On the evening of the same da}'^ I offered the eight by Belvidere to 
the same person, that they might be fed together, at £17 each, and he 
refused them. 



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At the Easter previously T had desired two graziers from the neighbor- 
hood of Morpeth, who were attending Darlington market on Easter Mon- 
day, to put a value on eaeli of the eight steers, all going loose in the same 
straw 3^ard, where tlu^y had gone all winter, eating wheat straw; they 
valued those by Gainbier at £d each, and those by Belvidere at £10 10s. 
each. On the 13th of May following the eight Gambier steers averaged 
by measurement 36 stones each, and those by Belvidere 42 stones each. 
The eight steers by Belvidere were turned out in the day to a grass pas- 
ture, very bare, and got straw at night, all the autumn of 1835 till January 
the 12th, 1836, twelve weeks, and they were then not so good as they were 
at Yarm fair, the 19th of October previous. They had afterwards a few 
turnips, (not two stones per day each,) and some damaged linseed, the cost 
of whicii did not exceed Ihd. per week, besides straw and the cost of labor 
in boiling the linseed, and for a few weeks at first got a little bran mixed 
•with it to induce them to eat it, and when so learnt, got onh^ chopped straw 
mixed with the boiled linseed, wliich was bought by public auction. 

These cattle were sold in Leeds market the first week in June, and ave- 
raged £M each, averaging near 90 stones each, of 14 pounds per stone; 
those by Gambier, having the Galloway polled blood, &c., were sold 13 
weeks afterwards at Wakefield, at £21 10s. each, making a difference in 
the price of the two lots of £12 10s. per head each — £100 difference in the 
value of eight steers! no small consideration in the profits of grazing, 
besides three months longer keep. 

I meant to have reversed the cows to each bull the following year and 
then seen the difference, but Gambier got no calves after the first year, 
(not unusual in this tribe of cattle.) I however put the cows, that were to 
Gambier, the following j^ear to Belvidere, and kept the produce in steers in 
much the same manner as in the former year's breed, and sold them in the 
same market that the Gambier steers were sold at, (viz., Wakefield,) and 
above three months earlier, being sold in May, and got within five shillings 
per head of the price the Belvidere steers were sold for the previous year; 
the prices of beef per stone nearly the same both years, 1836 and 1837. 
This proves, by a sure test, the contrast between Frederick's blood and 
that of Belvidere. 

Now this is a test of value far different to what " Correspondent " pro- 
poses. The opnnion of men, unless they have judgment and honesty to act 
uprightly, is of no estimation whatever. As a proof in point, I need only 
refer Mr. Parkinson, Jr., himself to his decision and that of his coadjutors, 
Mr. Torr, of Lincolnshire, and Mr. Anthony Maynard, at Richmond, last 
summer, at the Yorkshire Agricultural Society's Exhibition, (and these 
three took every pains in examining the different animals,) and the deci- 
sions of the judges at the Durham Agricultural Society's meeting at Stock- 
ton, within two months of the former, where the same bulls were again 
exhibited as at Richmond, and where one, unnoticed at Richmond, was 
placed before the two that got the first and second premiums at Richmond. 
After such frequent bare-faced, unprincipled conduct in men, to say nothing 
of the total want of judgment altogether, it behooves the conductors of 
agricultural societies to take some other mode of ascertaining merit than 
the opinions of men incompetent to such a task, and appointed by men who 



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are the exhibitors themselves. Mr. Parkinson, Jr., himself, had certainly 
great reason to be dissatisffod with the decisions of the judges at Durham 
in 1843, when Sir Thomas Fairfax himself was placed in the back ground, 
and a bull placed before him, without the least character of a good Short- 
horn, but the decisions at Durham in 1843, were praiseworthy in compari- 
son to those at Stockton in 18-44. 

If Mr. Parkinson, Jr., chooses to reply hereto, he must piit his own name 
thereto; it was to him I wrote, and only from him, having my letter in his 
possession, could that paragraph emanate which appeared in the Farmers' 
Journal of last Monday, week. I have never had any hand in appointing 
judges at agricultural shows in my life, and no person of judgment has 
said, or can say, I ever received a premium to wliich I was not entitled. 
But not a few persons have seen and said, how improperly my stock has 
been treated at public exhibitions. 

1 exhibited cattle at the Tyneside Agricultural Society's meetings from 
its first institution in 1804 to 1812, but never showed my best cattle, and 
was successful at every show (and those exhibitions were held sometimes 
thrice a year) till the last show in 1812, and I then showed better animals 
than I had ever showed before. One of the judges told me afterwards, 
that those who influenced the proceedings, decided in the room, before they 
went out to examine the stock, that I should never have another premium 
in that society, however excellent the stock I exhibited; and this gentle- 
man, and others who knew the determination come to, advised me never to 
exhibit again, and for 26 years afterwards I never did, till the York meet- 
ing in 1838, although I continued my subscription to the Tyneside Society 
till it was dissolved. 

In 1819, seven years after I had ceased to show, a breeder of Short-horns 
removed to the northern part of Northumberland from Tyneside, dined 
with me at the same table at Berwick-upon-Tweed, and after dinner he 
asked me, before a very large companj^ how my stock was going on — and 
I said I had not exhibited since 1812, and knowing the resolution that was 
come to, " that I was never to have a premium, however excellent the 
stock I exhibitedf ' he then said, " you ought not to reflect upon me seven 
years afterwards, for I avow myself to have been the proposer of that reso- 
lution;" and he set to work to defend himself and those who acted with 
him, "justifying their conduct" by saying "that they were perfectly right 
in so doing, as they had none of my blood, and having, for so many years, 
given me premiums, it was time to put a stop thereto, and act for their own 
interest alone, and help the sale of their own stock." This ended two 
years afterwards in the breaking up of the agricultural society in Tyne- 
side, and the short-horned cattle of that district, from having been the best^ 
shows I ever knew, far exceeding any in the present day, as a whole, 
became the worst of any district I ever knew of, for in 1837, at the Hexhan 
show, there was not even the vestige of a good Short-horn from Tyneside 
in Northumberland, and the premiums were nearly all carried away by 
strangers from other districts; and with the decline of good Short-horns, 
the agricultural produce of the district fell off to less than one-half to what 
I had known it on many farms, and probably never again will become equal 
to what it once was, while in other parts of the kingdom the agricultural 



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improvcpients have greatly advanced. This ought to be a warninf^ to all 
other ag-ricullural societies to prevent the conductors thereof being gov- 
erned by selfish motives to advance their own interest, instead of the public 
advantage, for I have held, and ever will hold, that the prosperity of the 
landed interest, I nicau landlord, tenant and laborer conjinntly, tends to 
the prosperity of every other class in the state. Apologising for the length 
to which I have been drawn, unintended when this letter was begun, 

I am, &c., THOMAS JBATES. 

KiRKI.EVINGTON, NEAR YaRM, NoV. 2lsf, 1844. 

P. S. I must add further — that I showed Mr. Whittaker, Mr. Fawkes, of 
Farnly Hall, and others with them, the Belvedere steers to which I have 
referred above, in the spring of 1836, while feeding here, and showed them 
Norfolk's dam, feeding in the same hemble — she stood with a cow by son of 
2d Hubback (2683), whose dam cost £S in a two-j^ear old heifer, and this 
cow was only 48 stone at Christmas, 1835, and was, when sold at Leeds, 
estimated at 84 stones, having gained 36 stones (of 14 lbs. per stone) in 20 
weeks, and increased in value in the estimation of the butcher, who bid 
d£12 for her at Christmas, to be worth £32, being £20 increased value in 
,20 weeks, while Norfolk's dam did not increase in weight one-fourth as 
much, and was sold, I think, at £21, or £5 less than the cow by son of 2d 
Ilubback; this I pointed out to the above gentlemen, and desired them to 
examine Norfolk's dam's rumps, as they had no fat upon them whatever, 
and yet it pleased "the breeder of Norfolk to say that was owing- (want of 
fat on his, Norfolk's rumps) to second Hubback; but they then had ocular 
demonstration before them that it arose from Norfolk's dam. 

I have just received a kind letter from Henry Lister Maw, Esq., of Tet- 
ley, near Crowle, (whom I had not had a letter from for some time) inform- 
ing me that he had offered to accept the challenges given to me, and adding, 
what I deem due to the public to know, that the editor of BeWs Weekly 
Messenger had abridged the letter he (H. L. Maw, Esq.,) sent to him; leav- 
ing out a most imjjortant remark he sent them, viz: "In a note I received 
from Mr. Bates, upwards of a year since, in reply to one of mine, referring 
to a match I proposed to make at the meeting of the Yorkshire Society at 
Doncaster, ' he informed me he made it a rule never to enter into matches or 
sweepstakes, and advised me not to do so.'" "I thought this would have 
shown the public sufficient grounds for your not accepting Mr. Parkinson's 
match," &c. 

MR. BATES AND MR. PARKINSON'. 

To the Editor of the Farmers^ Journal : 

Sir — I have read in 3'our last number a long letter from Mr. Bates, in 
reply to a paragraph from a "Correspondent," inserted in your paper of 
the 11th instant. Mr. Bates does not attempt to deny the statement of 
"Correspondent," and he assumed that my son wrote to him, but I thought 
that he, and almost every other breeder of Short-horns, knew that I am 
the owner of Sir Thomas Fairfax and Cassandra, and the breeder of de- 
menti, Collard and Cramer. Mr. Bates is desirous that your readers should 
know what he really did say to me, but he has not stated that he had pre- 
viously and gratuitously advised Mr. Banks Stanhope to get rid of Cramer, 



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and if it could not otiierwise be done, that he should try to persuade rae to 
take him again, which caused me to send him the letter whereof the follow- 
ing is a copy, and it may be published if you think proper. 

The letter from Mr.. Bates to you contains mis-statements, and it proba- 
bly will be replied to by other breeders. In autumn, 1843, I and two 
friends saw Mr. Bates' herd, and after repeated inquiry, the heifer which I 
bred; and it was his remark and not mine that she was deficient in growth. 
She was, however, considered superior to any other Mr. Bates showed us 
of the same age. I cannot doubt that other parts of his letter are equally 
perverted and advise him ^o examine the color of the noses of some that 
he admits are pure bred Short-horns. 

Mr. Bates may reply to this letter if he pleases, but I do not intend to 
continue the correspondence. 

I had not the least idea of showing my cattle against those of any 
breeder other than Mr. Bates, but Mr. Lister Maw having identified himself 
with Mr. Bates upon this subject, I accepted the challenge made by Mr. 
Maw, and have agreed t.o abide by the decision of a judge he has proposed. 

I make the following quotation from a letter I received some time ago, 
as it corresponds precisely with my own opinion — " / think very little of 
what Mr. Bates says when speaking of his own Short-horns, and still less when 
he speaks of those of any other breeder T 

I am, &c., JOHN PARKINSON. 

Ley Fields, Newark, Nov. 28, 1844. 

To Thomas Bates, Esq,, Kirklevington, near Yarm: 

Sir — It having been represented to me from various quarters that you 
have written in disparagement of my short horned cattle generally, and 
particularly in strongly advising that Mr. Banks Stanhope should not con- 
tinue to use his bull " Cramer," which I bred and sold to him; I wrote to 
Mr. Stanhope to inquire^if he were disposed to state a price for the bull, 
and intimated that I considered him superior to one for which I lately of- 
fered 175 guineas; and as I now want a first rate young bull, I should be 
glad to purchase " Cramer." Mr. Stanhope has replied " That he has not 
the least idea of parting from him, and that double the sum I had offered 
for the other bull would not induce him to do so." 

I am authorised to state, that Mr. Banks Stanhope would agree to match 
Cramer at the next Beverly meeting, against any of your bulls, then under 
nine years old, upon your own terms. 

And I hope you will agree to show thirty of your Short-horns, which I 
fully admit have, in many respects, great merit, on your farm, against 
thirty of mine, on this farm; but neither for premium nor sweepstakes. 
The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, to be solicited 
by us to appoint the judges, with the stipulation that the usual expenses 
for their travelling, paid by the society at the annual meetings, should be 
defrayed equally between us; or, if you prefer it, I have not any objection 
that the unsuccessful exhibitor shall pay the expenses; or that any other 
proper arrangement shall be made for tlie cattle being shown, which shall 
be more agreeable to you. I remain, &c., 

JOHN PARKINSON. 

Ley Fields, Newark, Oct. 10, 1844. 



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MR. HATES AND MR. PARKINSON. 

To the Editor of the Farmers^ Journal : 

Sir — I luive read in your paper of the 2d iiist., Mr. Parkinson, sen.'s let- 
ter, with his name to it — not again sheltered under a feigned signature — 
and, as he says " Mr. Bates may reply to this letter if he pleases, but I do 
not intend to continue the correspondence." (I here quote his own words.) 

Such being the case, I would be the last man to triumph over a fallen 
foe, and pity the man who could send such a challenge as he did, well 
knowing it would not be accepted; and I leave the public to jndge, who 
have read my last letter showing tlie real pedi^^ee from which Sir Thomas 
Fairfax is descended, that the only good thing in his pedigree is the small 
proportion of the blood of my second Hubback (1423, 2d vol.. Herd Book), 
through Sir Thomas Fairfax's sire, Norfolk (2377, 3d vol., Herd Book), and 
as a proof of the superiority of second Hiibback's blood, Norfolk was sold 
at Mr. Whittaker's sale in 1833 for 124 guineas, while the only other calf 
off Norfolk's dam (Nonpareil), by Frederick (267 in 1st vol., and 1060 in 
2d vol., Herd Book), was sold at 31 guineas — ;just one-fourth of the price; 
this surely is a proof of public opinion that cannot be gainsaid. Mr. Park- 
inson has not dared to confront the statements I made of the pedigree of 
Sir Thomas Fairfax, " though I told him that he vxight call the ivhole world to 
aid him in his reply,''^ and I called on Mr. Whittaker, the breeder of Sir 
Thomas Fairfax, to deny the facts I stated if he dared; and I sent him your 
paper of the 25th ult., containing my letter, that he might not plead igno- 
rance of what I had written. I consider it quite unnecessary to replj to 
the base insinuations, and the false statements contained in his (Mr. Park- 
inson's) letter; as all who have seen my stock know (if they speak the 
truth) how contrary they are to his insinuations. I have, however, un- 
eai'thed the cunning foe, and brought him out to public view — his paper 
pedigrees will now be examined into, and I hope^^in future, no unfledged 
goose neither home nor foreign, will be again caught by him; his pedigrees 
in the last Herd Book, will be mostl}^ found to be all late purchases, of 
which, of course, he could know nothing from experience, and what yexy 
little good blood there is in them, is at a remote distance, though of that 
blood which he affects to despise in my herd. 

Mr. Parkinson, sen., having withdrawn from the controversy he himself 
excited, the only other name contained in my letter was that of Mr. Whit- 
taker, sen., of Burly. I do not mean to reply to any letters that may be 
addressed to me from any other persons but those two, as I am well aware 
many envious and malicious spirits would wish to draw me into contro- 
versy — chagrined, perhaps, as much as Mr. Parkinson and Mr. Whittaker 
at the superiority of the short-horned cattle I have so often exhibited during 
the last seven j^ears; but let such persons first attempt to breed such Short- 
horns, and they will find it impossible, unless tliey first possess the same blood. 

When I began breeding early in life, I acted on sure principles and from 
data that can never deceive; and success has been the certain result, and 
my breed of short-horned cattle may yet be further improved from my own 
herd, and they can be improved from no other; and wherever they go, they 
carry their good qualities along with them. The renowned American states- 
man, Mr. AVebster, who spoke at the Oxford meeting of the Royal Agricul- 



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tural Society in 1839, openly declared in h\s speech after dinner, "that he 
had seen the four successful Short-horns that had been exhibited that day, 
and he did assure the breeder of them that he has seen his cattle on the 
banks of the Ohio; and they were held, and justly so, in as great estima- 
tion in the United States of America as they were at Oxford." And that 
estimation has not been diminished; for in a letter which I have lately 
received from Georg-e Vail, Esq., of Troy, he says: "You will, no doubt, 
be much gratified to learn that Meteor, my young bull by Wellington, out of ^ 
your Oxford premium cow, and from my Duchess cow by Duke of Nor- 
thumberland, obtained the first premium in the first-class of Durhams, and 
there was also a premium oflerc^d for the best bull of any breed covering the 
whole ground, mid fhi.^ premium was also unanimously awarded to Meteor. 
Tiiis I consider a great victory, as there was a fine display of bulls on the 
ground, and perhaps the best display this country can produce. There was 
an imported bull from Earl Spencer on the ground, and one from Mr. Whit- 
taker's herd; bui there will be a full account given of this great State's 
fair at Poughkeepsie, in tlie New York American Agriculturist and the 
Albany Cultivator.'''' And, I may hei-e add, the stock from me»taken out by 
Messrs. Bolden, of Hymen, in Lancashire, to Port Philip, in Australia, have 
been equally successful at their Public Exhibitions. The whole of the 
'pretended improved Short-horn breeders in these United Kingdoms may unite 
their influence, as did the influential breeders in the Tyneside Agricultural 
Society, to keep the merits of my cattle from being known; but wherever 
they are fairly tried, their merits will shine forth, in producing a greater 
return for the food consumed than any other breed of cattle that ivas ever known 
in the ivorld. Mr. Charles Colling, from whom I got them, repeatedly as- 
sured me that the first cow he bought of the Duchess breed, from Stanwix, 
of the agent of the late Duke of Northumberland, " loas the best coio he ever 
had or ever saw,^' and " that this first cow was better than any he could pro- 
duce from her, though put to his best bulls which improved all other cat- 
tle." The cattle were in the possession of Sir Hugh" Smithson's family 
(the grandfather of the present Duke of Northumberland) for two centu- 
ries, and the celebrity of them was kept up by paying the greatest atten- 
tion to their breeding. Mr. Cliarles Colling bought this tribe in 1784, and 
in 1804 (twenty years afterwards), I purchased my first Duchess cow of 
Mr. C. Colling, my bull Ketton 1st (t09, 1st vol. Herd-book) by Favorite 
(252) then in her womb. This cow calved at Halton Castle, in Northum- 
berland, June 1th, 1801; she was kept on grass only, in a pasture with 
nineteen other cows, and made in butter and milk, for some months, above 
two guineas per week, or forty-two shilh'ngs English money. Duchess 34th 
(the dam oi' the four Dukes of Northumberland bulls) consumes one-third less 
food than my first Duchess (purchased in 1804) and her milk yields one- 
third more butter for each quart of milk. "And whilst the consumption 
of food is one third less, and the milk yields one-third more butter, there is 
also a greater growth of carcass and an increased aptitude to fatten. This 
cow is now in her thirteenth year, and has had ten calves. If these arc 
not proofs of excellence, then let Short-horn breeders say what are, and 
where the like can be found." I am, &c., 

KiRKLEviNGTON, NEAR Yarm, December 4, 1844. THOMAS BATES. 

LS. H ] 3 



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SHORT-HORN " SENIOR WRANGLERS. 



UiidcM- tin's title we present the public with a list of the winning Short- 
horns in the first class of bulls and cows respectively, at the yearly meet- 
ing-s of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. The want of such a 
list, accompanied by explanatory comments, has long been felt by the 
writer of the present article, and has no doubt been equally felt bj' others. 

We restrict our labors to the first class of bulls and the first class of 
cows; partly because an extension of the plan would multiply materials to 
an inconvenient degree, but chiefly because the most significant and instruc- 
tive lessons result from an exhibition of aduTt specimens of the 
Short-horn tribes. The character of calves (purity of blood granted) 
depends incalculably upon the skill of those who rear them; heifers and 
young bulls repeatedly excite expectations which are not realized in their 
subsequent history-; but Short-horns matured by time and growth may be 
accepted as reliable, though, perhaps, favorable samples of the several 
families to which they belong, and invite judgment on the strength of prop- 
erties fully developed and unmistakably apparent. Some sorts improve as 
they approach the point of maturity, soine grow worse; in either case, the 
mature animal is the only fit example and the only adequate criterion. 
Our objections to one of the most fashionable Short-horn families of the day 
are founded upon the fact that the members of that family, as adults, sel- 
dom, verify the promise of their state of veal. Yet amongst the idolatries 
in vogue, calf idolatry is becoming notorious. The gold medal has 
endowed it. 

The value of the animals exhibited is far from being merely individual. 
If this were all, our shows would lack interest and profit. But the win- 
ning Sliort-horns are, or ought to be, representatives, and herein consists 
their importance. The herds which have produced them are supposed to be 
capable of producing others like them; if the same blood is at work the 
same "points" may be expected. As a general rule these conclusions will 
be established by facts. The Short-horn herd which sends forth a Short- 
horn winner may be safely looked to for the supply of good Short-horns, 
and accordingly a first prize is an advertisement equally beneficial to the 
owner of the successful animal and to Short-horn breeders who desire fresh 
blood. 

OXFORD, 1839. 

Duke of Northumberland (1940), bred by and the property of Mr. Bates. 

Oxford premium cow (Herd Book, V., p. 152), bred b^' and the property 
of Mr. Bates. 

Duke of Northumberland was the result of a combination of R. Ceiling's 
"Princess," and C. Colling's "Duchess" blood, in the proportion of three- 
fourths of the former and one-fourth of the latter. Down to the time when 
the two strains became united in the person of his dam, Duchess 34th, in- 



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breeding, to a considerable extent in each family, had probably not only 
preserved the original types, but also multiplied hereditary power. Mr. 
Bates bred in-and-in the descendants of Mr. C. Colling's Duchess 1st, and 
Mr. Stephenson those of Mr. R. Colling-'s "Princess," although in both 
cas'tes with the addition of a little fresh blood. At length Duchess 29th and 
the Princess bull Belvidere were brought together, and the offspring of 
this alliance, Duchess 34th, bred, to her own sire, the illustrious bull at 
present under our notice. 

To Duke of Northumberland the most extraordinary merits are ascribed. 
They are said to have been unprecedented then and unparalleled since. 
He has been called by those who knew bulls long before him, and who 
have known bulls of the present day, '" the best bull that ever lived." He 
appears to have satisfied everybody that saw him, and to have realized the 
prevailing idea of short-horn beauty. We never heard but one qualifying 
criticism. " He was, if anything, a trifle too long," was the mild judgment 
of an experienced living breeder; and a gentleman whose services are fre- 
quently solicited, and sometimes obtained, as a judge at our leading shows, 
wrote of him the other day — "He was certainly the best bull I ever saw of 
that or any other time." 

Oxford premium cow, by Duke of Cleveland (a son of Duchess 26th and 
Mr. Whittaker's Bertram), was out of Matchem cow by Matchera, grand dam 
by Young Wynyard. Beyond this the "Herd-book" gives no information 
concerning her pedigi'ce in the female line. We may, however, assume, 
considering her character and the achievements of herself, her collateral 
kindred and their posterit}^ that the earlier maternal ancestors were 
purely bred animals of no mean order. 

C.4.MBRIDGE, 1840. 

Hero (4021), exhibited by Mr. W. Paul Putney; bred by Mr. Topham, 
West Keal. 

Red Rose, 13th, afterwards Cambridge Premium Rose (H. B. V., p. 125), 
bred by and the property of Mr, Bates. Hero has only four crosses; the 
earliest, Mr. Champion's Cossack, nobly bred; the second, an unknown son 
of Colling's Major; and the two last as good as they can be, Raine's Young 
Rockingham and Crofton's Eclipse. 

Cambridge Premium Rose, from which Mr. Bates raised his Cambridge' 
Kose family, belonged to a tribe descended from Mr.' R. Colling's cow, 
known as the American cow, an own sister to Red Rose, the dam of Pilot 
(496), with whose blood the Warlaby herd is So strongly impregnated. 

LIVERPOOL, 1841. 

Cleveland Lad (3407), bred by and the property of Mr. Bates. 

Bracelet (H. B. V., p. 103), bred by and the property of Mr. Booth, of 
Killerby. 

Cleveland Lad was by Short Tail, a Belvidere and Duchess Bull, and out 
of Matchem cow, the ancestress of the " Oxfords." Young Wynyard, the 
grandsire of Matchem cow, was a son of R. Colling's Princess; and there- 
fore, through Cleveland Lad, his brother 2d Cleveland Lad, and the Dukes 
of Oxford, the present " Duchess," and other Kirklevington families have 



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received an infusion of " Princess" blood, in addition to the amount of it 
which Belvedere brought into Mr. Bate's herd. Cleveland Lad, as well as 
Oxford Premium cow, inherits the Chilton blood through Matchem. 

A searching examination of the various lines composing the ancestry of 
Bracelet, one of the most admirable of cows, reveals, in close relation- to 
her, the names of some of the noblest specimens of the early Killerby, War- 
laby, and Studley Shorthorns. Througii her sire and dam's sire, Priam and 
Argus, she is descended from Ksabella, and Anna by Pilot, and from the 
Strawberry and Halnaby race; possessing, besides, more remotely in the 
line direct, the blood of animals which were selected from the best herds of 
their day, and became the foundation stock of the Killerby families. Brace- 
let, before visiting Liverpool, had given birth to Buckingham, by Colonel 
Cradock's Mussulman; and afterwards produced Morning Star, Birthday, 
Pearl, and Hamlet. 

Mr. Bates had carried n(>arly all before him at the two previous shows 
At Oxford he took all the Short-horn prizes except a JEID prize for the best 
bull calf, which was awarded to the Marquis of Exeter; and in 1840, as 
we have just seen, he was victorious with Red Rose 13th. Happening to 
meet Mr. John Booth some time before the exhibition of 1841, he alluded 
exultingly to his past successes, and rather daringly of his future prowess. 
Mr. Booth met his defiant remarks with these quiet wof'ds: " I've got a rod 
in pickle for you at Liverpool." Bracelet, one of the most beautiful cows 
that ever was bred, a twin with Necklace, who rivaled her beauty, and 
even surpassed her in honors, was that rod. 

BRISTOL, 1842. 

Sir Thomas Fairfax (5196), exhibited by Mr. Parkinson, Lcj Fields, and 
Mr. John Booth, of Cotham; bred bj'- Mr. Whitaker, Bnrley. 

Necklace (H. B. V., p. 726), bred by and the property of Mr. Booth, of 
Killerby. 

It has been the lot of few bulls to win so man}^ principal prizes as Sir 
Thomas Fairfax. He maj- be said to have been the champion bull of his 
day. An examination of his breeding discloses the secret of success. His 
sire, Norfolk, bred by Mr. Whitaker, adopted by Mr. Bates as a cross for 
the Duchesses, and used very extensively in the Farnley herd, combined the 
blood of Mr. Bate's Second Hubback with tht;t of the Brampton Nonpareil, 
whose parents (own brother and sister) were both by the famous North 
Star (own brother to Comet), and from Mr. R. Ceiling's Young Sally. The 
dam of Sir Thomas Fairfax was a descendant of the Charge, Booth, and 
Colling strains, intermingled with some of those early Short-horns of whose 
antecedents the Herd-book tells us very little. 

Necklace was twin sister of Bracelet, mentioned in the preceding division. 

DERBY, 1843. 

Musician (4523), bred by Earl Spencer, exhibited by Mr. E. G. Barnard, 
M. P., Gosfield Hall, Halstead. 

Rosey (H. B. VII , p. 532), bred by Mr. Colling, White House; the pro- 
perty of Mr. T. Crofton, Holywell, 

Musician, a pure Wiseton bull, directly descended from the Chilton cow, 



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No. 25, and her daughter, Clarion, was by Warlock, a son of Firby and 
Eloquence, by Mercury. 

His pedigree comprises the names of some of the late Earl Spencer's fa- 
vorite animals. 

Rosey was a great-granddaughter of Mr. J. Colling's Rachael by Frederick; 
the three subsequent crosses being of the very best description. Her sire, 
Borderer, " alias Mr. Smith's Premium Bull," (bred by Mr. Smith of Shed- 
law), was descended from the stocks, Messrs. Robertson, of Ladykirk, R. 
Colling, and some of their well-known contemporaries. The next bull was 
Colonel Cradock's Gainford; and the one beyond, Cupid, own brother to 
Rob Roy (551), whose influence proved so very great and so beneficial to 
the herds of the Raines. 

SOUTHAMPTON, 1844. 

Strelly (7560), bred by and the property of Mr. John Cooper, Thurgarton. 

Birthday, (H. B. VI., p. 271) bred by and the property of Mr. John Booth, 
of Killerby. 

Strelly was a three-cross bull; the best that can be said of his breeding 
is, that his father was well bred, being b}" Mason's Spectator (2688) out 
of a cow by Childers (1824); with a remainder of sound old blood. These 
elements, if not causes, are important conditions of Strelly's success. 

Birthdaj', a daughter of the Liverpool royal prize cow Bracelet, claims 
descent, through her sire, Lord Stanle}^, from Mr. R. Booth's Lady Sarah, 
an own sister to Isabella by Pilot. Lord Stanley was a grandson of Lady 
Sarah; and his sire and dam's sire were noble representatives of the Castle 
Howard herd. 

SHREWSBURY, 1845. 

Cramer (6907), bred by Mr. Parkinson, Ley Fields; exhibited by Mr. J. 
B. Stanhope, M. P., Revesb}' Abbey. 

Ladythorn (IL B. VL, p. 429), bred by Mr. John Booth of Killerby; 
exhibited by Mr. J. B. Stanhope, M. P., Revesby Abbey. 

Cramer, whose father. Sir Thomas Fairfax, took first honors in 1842, and 
whose maternal cousin, Belleville, won a similar degree in 1846, belongs to 
a notoriously good and prize-gaining family. The excellent qualities of 
his dam, Cassandra (H. B. V., 146), have been inherited by numerous 
descendants in the female line direct, and have beeu transmitted also to the 
posterity of her sons — Clementi, Collard, and Cramer. The names of these 
bulls will be found to occur in some of the best genealogies of the present 
day. 

Ladythorn was so nearly related in blood to Birthday, the winner at 
Southampton in 1844, that tiie same observations will apply, with very lit- 
tle alteration, to both cows. The only difference in their breeding is in the 
second cross, or dam's sire, which in the case of Birthday was Priam, and 
in Ladythorn's Young Matchem, the well known son of Mason's Matchem 
and the Killerby cow Blush. 

NEWCASTLE-UPOX-TYNE, 1846. 
I 

Belleville (6778), bred by and the property of Mr. J. M. Hopper. 

Hope (H. B. IX., p. 399\ bred by and the property of Mr. Richard Booth. 

On his sire's side, Belleville is descended from the herds of Messrs, J. 



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and G. Wood (of Kimblesworth and Whitwortli) and Mr. Crofton of Holy- 
well, tliroug'h his dam, from those of Mason of Cliilton and Mi-. Shaftoe. , 
Belleville's connection with Mr. Parkinson's Cassandra and Cressida family 
has been already intimated in the remarks on Cramer, the premier bull of 
1845. 

The classic names composing Hope's pedigree — Faith, Farewell, Flora, 
Leonard, Raspberry, Young Matchem, Isaac, Young Pilot, Pilot, and Julius 
Caesar — render needless any observations on the superlative excellence of 
her blood. She was as grand a breeder as she was grandly bred. The 
royal prize cow Cliariiy, the dam of Crown Prince, was her daughter, and 
Hopewell and Harbinger were her sons. 

NORTHAMPTON, 184*1. 

Captain Shaftoe (6833), bred by Mr. Lax of Ravensworth; exhibited by 
Mr. Parkinson, Ley Fields. 

Cherry Bhjssom (H. B. IX., p. 299), bred by and the property of Mi", 
Richard Booth. 

Captain Shaftoe, by the "Ravensworth bull Mehemet Ali, and from a 
Shaftoe and Mason cow very closely allied to the dams of Cramer and 
Belleville, received through his sire the fine blood of Colonel Cradock, Mr. 
Whittaker, and Mr. Booth. 

The pedigree of Clierry Blossom, like that of Hope, sets forth some of 
the noblest Warlaby names, at once familiar and illustrious. She was by 
Buckingham, and was own sister of Baron Warlaby. 

YORK, 1848. 

Deception (795t), bred by Mr. Game, Broadmore; exhibited by Mr. R. 
Keevil, Melksham. 

Violet (H. B. VII., p. 589), bred by the Rev. Mr. Glaister, Kirby Fleatham; 
exhibited by Mr. J. M. Hopper. 

Deception was got by Elevator (6969); his dam by a bull called Raflfler 
(7391); his granddam by a bull called Consul (1868); and his great-grand- 
dam by a bull who rejoiced in the name of Gazer (7030). 

Violet was a two cross cow. The first cross is imperfectly recorded, and 
the second presents a sire without a dam. 

NORWICH, 1849. 

Andrew (12396), bred by the Duke of Buccleuch; exhibited by Mr. W. 
Tod, Elphinstone Tower, Tranent. 

Charity (II. B. IX., p. 295), bred by and the property of Mr. Richard 
Booth. 

Andrew was by a bull who does not appear to have been registered in 
the Herd Book, and of whom all we are told is that he was a son of Raine's 
Thorpe. The dam of Andrew was by Mr. R. Booth's Studley, and the 
granddam by Whitelaw, a bull with a very carelessly recorded pedigree, 
displaying good names xinverified by accompanying numbers. Beyond 
Whitelaw there is some exceedingly fine old blood, chiefly Mr. Robertson's 
of Ladykirk. 

Charity, the daughter of Hope, whose magnificent affinities we have 



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already mentioned, was by Buckingham, the sire, as will be shown in the 
course of these notices, of four royal prize cows. As the connections of 
Buckingham's dam, Bracelet (the winner at Liverpool in 1841), have also 
been considered, we need only add, in examining the composition of Chari- 
ty's pedigree, the sire of Buckingham, Colonel Cradock's Mussulman, 
the offspring of an alliance between the Hartforth Magnum Bonum and 
Old Cherry. 

Charity has become one of the most renowned of the Warlaby cows, not 
merely on account of her personal merits, which were of the highest order, 
but by reason chiefly of her near relationship to Crown Prince, the bull 
perhaps of all others bred at Warlaby Avho has most impressively stamped 
upon the Warlaby herd the qualities that have rendered it so remarkable 
during the last twelve or thirteen years. A gentleman who acted as a 
judge upon one occasion when she carried all before her, observed to us, 
" She was, considering all her points, as nearly perfect as a cow could be, 
and she is the youngest looking old cow I ever saw. She is as round as a 
barrel yet, and nearly as compact as ever." This was in the autumn of 
1857, and her eleventh year had been completed. Charity was the mother 
of four calves at least — Crown Prince by Fitz-Leonard, Comfort by Leoni- 
das. Cheerful by Lord George, and Sir Samuel by Crown Prince. Sir Sam- 
uel is of course both her son and her grandson. 

EXETER, 1850. 

Senator (8548), bred by the Earl of Carlisle; exhibited by Mr. Ambler, 
Watkinson Hall, Halifax. 

Isabella Buckingham, (H. B. IX., p. 401,) bred by and the property of 
Mr. Richard Booth. 

In Senator's three latest crosses the Booth element is present in very 
considerable quantity. The herds of Messrs. Whittaker and Wilej^ have 
likewise contributed in no contemptible measure to produce the blood of* 
which his ancestry was composed. His pedigree, showing sound ingre- 
dients throughout, comprises names belonging to some of the most noted 
Castle Howard families. 

Isabella Buckingham, the own sister of Vanguard (whose long-continued 
usefulness and extraordinary value as a sire, of females especially, have 
placed him in a position of eminence even among Warlaby bulls), and half- 
sister, by the dam, to Fitz-Leonard, the sire of Crown-Prince, was the third 
of Buckingham's daughters that gained the first prize in the first class at a 
royal show. The dams of her father and mother respectively were the 
Killerby Bracelet and the Warlaby Isabella by Pilot. Her maternal grand- 
sire was young Matchem;' not the Young Matchem mentioned in the notice 
of Ladythorn's parentage — there were two Booth Young Matchems — but 
his half-brother. Both these bulls were by Mason's ^Matchem; one was out 
of a Killerby cow, the other from a dam of the old Warlaby, " Carnation" 
sort. 

WINDSOR, 1851. 
Earl of Scarborough, (9064) bred by Mr. H. L. Maw, Tetley; exhibited 
by Mr. Wetherell, Kirkbridge. 



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Plnm Blossom, (II. B. X., p. 52G) bred by and the property of Mr. Eicli- 
ard Booth. 

The splendid!}^ bred bull, Earl of Scarborough, was a son of Mr. Bate's 
Roan Duke, of the Duchess, Norfolk, Belvidere, and old Stockburn blood. 
His dam's sire was Sir Charles Tem]H>st's Saxe Colnirg-; and the rest of his 
pedigree consists of the names of Belvidere 2d, Bellerophon, and Kit, or 
Waterloo. The paternity of the great-great-granddam seems to have been 
doubtful. 

Plum Blossom's name denotes the famous female line to wliich she be- 
longs. She was the fourth Buckingham cow, to whom the highest first- 
class royal honors were awarded. But higher honors than any within the 
power of the Royal Society to give, awaited this admirable specimen of a 
pure-bred shorthorn of the truest and the oldest blood. Not three months 
after the show she brought forth one of the most illustrious sires of modern 
times, Windsor, to whom the name was given in conmiemoration of his 
dam's triumph in the face of all England; a bull who, though not the sire 
of a very numerous progeny, was the sire of none but animals of a superior 
class wherever he went, and, at Warlaby, of animals that will bear com- 
parison with his celebrated dam. Plum Blossom, like most cOws prepared 
for exhibition at the leading shows, was but moderately prolific. Before 
AVindsor she produced one calf, Peach Blossom by Water King (11024) and 
after hiin with an interval of trial extending nearly over three years, the 
beautiful white heifer Own Sister to Windsor. 

LEWIS, 1852. 

Phoenix (10608), bred by and the property of Mr. T. Chrisp, Hawkhill, 
near Alnwick. 

Butterfly (H. B. XL, p. 354), bred by and the property of Colonel Towne- 
ley of Towneley. 

The sire of Phoenix was by Belleville, and from a cow of Belleville's 
blood. His dam possessed immediately three consecutive crosses of Mr. 
Crofton's bulls, Guy Fax, the Peer, and Bachelor (inheritors of the finest 
blood), preceded by Mr. T. Jobling's Wellington, R, Ceiling's Admiral, and 
some of the primitive shorthorns. 

Butterfly was a granddaughter of the celebrated cow Brampton Rose, 
whose pedigree, representing in the foreground tlie herds of the Wethwells, 
the Ceilings, and Mason of Chilton, leads beyond, up to the earliest short- 
horn records. Of Butterfly's sire (the late Mr. John Booth's Jeweller), we 
may remark that he was bred from animals which were own brother and 
sister in blood. His father (Hamlet, by Leonard) was a son of Brace- 
let; and his mother (Jewel, also by Leonard), a daughter of Bracelet's 
twin sister Necklace. The dam of Butterfly, Buttercup by Garrick, was 
out of the veritable Brampton Rose. Garrick, a well bred bull, owed his 
existence to a combination of very dissimilar materials derived from nume- 
rous sources. 

GLOUCESTER, 1853. 

Pat (1345G), bred by and the property of Lord Berners, Eeythorpe Hall, 

Rugby. 



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Vellum (H. B. XL, p. 733), bred by Sir Chas. Tempest, Brougbton Hall, 
Skipton; exhibited by Mr. H. Smith, the Grove, Bingham, Notts. 

We scarcely know what to say of Pat. His pedigree has some good 
names in it, but is certainly not what can be called a good pedigree. The 
half supplied by the dam is unexceptionable. In' his sire's pedigree the . 
name of Roderick Random occurs. This bull, formerly "The Kicker," a 
considerable prize-taker in his day, competed with Duke of Northumber- 
land at Oxford. 

Vellum, by Abraham Parker, a son of Lax's Mehemet Ali and Sir Charles 
Tempest's Lily by the Warlaby Brutus, was well bred also on the dam's 
side. Her pedigree goes quickly back to names connected with fine old 
blood. 

LINCOLN, 1854. 

Vatican (12260), bred by Earl Ducie; exhibited by Mr. Sandy, Holme 
Pierrepont, and Mr. H. Smith, The Grove, Bingham, Notts. 

Beauty (H. B. X., p. 265), bred by Mr. Bannerman of Chorley; the pro- 
perty of Colonel Towneley of Towneley, 

Vatican's pedigree has at its foundation materials connected chiefly with 
the shorthorns of Ladykirk, and is of a sterling character throughout. In 
the later crosses ycyj choice miscellaneous ingredients coalesce. His sire. 
Usurer, communicated the Wiseton element. The sire of his dam, Mr. 
Whittaker's Petrarch, introduced an admixture of the Castle Howard and 
Warlaby strains united to the blood of Mr. W. Johnson's celebrated cow, Star- 
ville; and by the bull next in order, 2d Duke of York, the Kirklevington 
Duchess blood was imparted. 

Beauty must be considered a pure Booth cow. Her sire, Victor, bred by 
Mr. Bannerman, was by Beau of Killerby (a son of Raspberry), the Kil- 
lerby and Warlaby strains, free from any additional blood, were mingled; 
and the dam of Beauty was the late Mr. John Booth's Mantle by Marcus. 

CARLISLE, 1855. 

Windsor (14013), bred by and the property of Mr. Richard Booth. 

Bridesmaid (H. B., XI, p. 384), bred by and the property of Mr. Richard 
Booth. 

Windsor, a son of the royal first prize cow Plum Blossom, was by 
Crown Prince. Crown Prince was a son of the royal first prize cow 
Charity, grandson of the royal first prize cow Hope, and sire of the royal 
first prize cows Nectarine Blossom and Queen of the Ocean. The sire of 
Crown Prince, Fitz-Leonard, was from the dam of the royal first prize cow 
Isabella Buckingham, and by Leonard, the sire of the royal first prize 
cow just mentioned. Allusion has elsewhere been made to Windsor. 

Bridesmaid's sire. Harbinger, was a son of the royal first prize cow 
Hope, and by Baron Warlaby, an own brother to the royal first prize 
cow Cherry Blossom. The dam of Bridesmaid, Bianca, by Leonard, bred by 
Bride Elect, and the bulls Brideman, British Prince, and Prince of Warlaby. 

CHELMSFORD, 1856. 

Master Butterfly (13311), bred and exhibited by Colonel Towneley, of 
Towneley. 

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Koan Duchess 2d (H. B., XII, p. 578), bred by and the property of Col. 
Townelcy. 

Master Butterfly was donbly descended, once through each of his parents, 
from Brampton Rose. His sire, Frederick, was by Mr. Lax's Duke (of Col. 
Cradock's Cherry tribe), and from Brampton Rose's daughter Bessy, by 
Thick Ilock, a bull of Colling and Mason extraction. For the female line 
of Master Butterfly's pedigree, we refer our readers to the i-emarks on his 
dam, the winner at T;ewes in 1852. Master Butterfly was sold, shortly 
after his victory at Chelmsford, to an Australian breeder, for the sum of 
1^200 guineas. 

Roan Duchess 2d, a daughter of Frederick, (whose family connections 
are treated of in the foregoing paragraph,) and of Roan Duchess by Whit- 
tington, has one of the most interesting pedigrees we ever analyzed. It 
shows a line of dams, fourteen in number, extending over a period of about 
seventy years, and proceeding from the excellent Sockburn short-horns. 
The sires of these females were, without a single exception, bulls of the 
choicest blood. The first of them, Whittington, the grandfather of Roan 
Duchess 2d, was by a bull of the Medora family, and his dam was des- 
cended from the strains of George Coates and Sir G. Strickland, with some 
splendid intermediate crosses. Then come, in the following order, Bate's 
2d Cleveland Lad and Duke of Northumberland, Norfolk, Belvidere, Belvi- 
dere again, R. Colling's Lancaster, C. Colling's Petrarch and Major, and, 
besides these, five names having little or no record of breeding attached to 
them, as the animals they represent lived in a time when the family histo- 
ries of our cattle were but negligentl}' attended to. Yet these are names 
with which every one accustomed to examine Herd Book pedigrees is fami- 
liarly acquainted; they lie at the foundation of many of the noblest short- 
horned genealogies; and they possess universal authority as expressing the 
judgment and experience of the pioneers of short-horn breeding. 

SALISBURY, 185t. 

John O'Groat (13090), bred by Mr. F. A. Fawkes, Farnley Hall, Otley; 
the property of Mr. Stirling, M. P., of Keir, Dunblane. 

Victoria (H. B., XII, p. 521), bred by and the property of Col. Towneley. 

John O'Groat's breeding is one of the most diversified character. His 
pedigree, consisting of five crosses, displays, on minute examination of the^ 
various lines which meet in him, the names of animals bred by Messrs. 
Fawkes, Whittaker, Lawson, Ambler, Mason, Sir Charles Tempest, Earl 
Ducie, Colonel Cradock, and many other cultivators of the best short-horn 
tribes. 

Victoria, by Valiant, a bull of pure Killerby blood, was from a four cross 
dam whose pedigree exhibits a mixture of various well known good fami- 
lies with others of obscure lineage. 

CHESTER, 1858. 

Fifth Duke of Oxford (12762), bred by Earl Ducie; the property of Lord 
Feversham. 

Nectarine Blossom (H. B., XII, p. 521), bred by and the property of Mr. 
Richard Booth. 



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Fifth Duke of Oxford represents the finest pure Kirkleving-ton families. 
He was purchased by Lord Feversham at the Tortworth salciu 1853, wheu 
only five months old, for 300 guineas. 

Nectarine Blossom, with her superb Warlaby pedigree, headed by Crown 
Prince, demands special attention on account of her distinguished kindred, 
as well as on the score of her own showyard achievements. Her dam, Haw- 
thorn Blossom, (a half sister to Cherry Blossom,) produced, besides Necta- 
rine Blossom herself, the Royal prize cow Plum Blossom, Bloom (the dam 
of Venus Victrix and Neptune), and the well known bulls Benedict and 
Highthorn. Many of the offspring' of Crown Prince have reputations that 
render any eulogistic personalities altogether needless. 

This is the second time the rival denominations of Booth and Bates di- 
vided the honors between them; the first occasion was at Liverpool in 1841. 
Fifth Duke of Oxford was acknowledged by Booth men to be a truly noble 
specimen of Kirklevington bulls; and Nectarine Blossom extorted from the 
admirers of Bates short-horns a cheerful admission of her true Warlaby 
type, combined with a more than ordinary exhibition of style and grace. 

WARWICK, 1859. 

Radford (15122), bred by Mr. Lythall, Radford, Leamington; the pro- 
perty of Mr. J. H. Bradburne, Lichfield. 

Matchless 4th (H. B., XIV., p. 586. See Matchless 6th), bred by and the 
property of Mr. R. Stratton, Broad Hinton, Wilts. 

An analysis of Radford's pedigree discovers the presence of Fawsley 
blodd in the proportion of rather more than one-half. He is connected, 
through his sire's dam, with the Sylph or Charmer family, in which it has 
been said, " there is as much of the pure blood of Favorite (252) as can be 
found in any existing tribe of Short-horns;" and through the sire of his 
maternal grand-dam he is descended from the herds of Mr. Stephenson, Mr. 
Parkinson, and the Earl of Carlisle. Beyond these we have animals bred 
by Mr. Cartright, of Tathwell. 

The brief lineage of Matchless 4th comprehends some sires of ancient 
descent. Of these, two of the most influential appear to have been Red 
Duke (8634) and Phoenix (6290), each from a grand-daughter of Mr. T. 
Jobling's Wellington (683), formerly Rockingham (560). Wellington — a 
son of R. Ceiling's Minor (441) by Favorite, and out of a cow by R. Col- 
ling's Phenomenon (491), also by Favorite — was let for fifteen successive 
years at £100 a year, and died at Mr. Bellamy's in Warwickshire. 

CANTERBURY, 1860. 

Royal Butterfly (1662), bred by and the property of Colonel Towneley. 

Rosette (H. B., XIV., p. 863), bred by Mr. Wetherell; the property of 
Mr. Eastwood, of Swinshawe, Burnley, 

Royal Butterfly and Master Butterfly (the winner at Chelmsford in 1856), 
were own brothers, and both out of the Lewes prize cow. Cases of this 
sort are of rare occurrence. 

Rosette has a five-cross pedigree of mixed blood, the chief ingredients 
being derived from the herds of Colonel Cradock and Messrs. Raine, Lax, 
Booth, Stephenson and Bates. Her sire, Mr. T. Raine's Earl of Derby 
(12810), was one of the most symmetrical bulls of his day. 



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LEEDS, 1861. 

Skyrocket (15306), bred by and the property of Lord Feversham. 

Ducbess 77th (II. B., XIV., p. 430), bred by and the property of Captain 
Gunter, Wetherby Grange. 

Twice in the history of the royal shows the son of a premier-bull has 
succeeded to his father's honors. This was first done at Shrewsbury in ' 
1845, when the first prize was adjudged to Cramer, a son of Sir Tliomas 
Fairfax, the winner at Bristol in 1842; and the second instance was in the 
case of Skyrocket, whose pure Bates sire 5th Duke of Oxford was the first 
bull at Chester in 1858. Swift, the dam of Skyrocket, is descended in a 
direct line from a Bootli family crossed latterlj^ with bulls of Kirklevington 
blood, and of the various strains belonging to Lord Feversham. Mr. Bate's 
Liverpool first prize winner, Cleveland Lad, was one of Skyrocket's blood- 
predecessors. By the way, an inadvertent omission in Skyrocket's pedi- 
gree in the Herd-book may be noticed here. The bull Expectation (3749) 
is in the line of sires, and ought to have come in between Young Grazier 
and Emperor. 

The connections of Duchess 77th are of extraordinary splendor. In her 
the purest and most fashionable Kirklevington blood is highly concentra- 
ted. Her sire, 6th Duke of Oxford, and her dam, Duchess 70th, wei*e both 
by Duke of Glo'ster, and their dams both by 5th Duke of York. Sixth 
Duke of Oxford is own brother to Lord Feversham's Chester prize bull, 5th 
Duke of Oxford. At the Tortworth sale in 1853, Captain Gunter gave for 
Duchess 70th, then only one month old, 310 guineas, and he purchased 6th 
Duke of Oxford, when a yearling, at the Hendon sale in 1855, for the sum 
of 200 guineas. 

BATTERSEA, 1862. 

Lord Adolphus (18208), bred by and the property of Mr. Wood, Stan- 
wick Park, Darlington. 

Queen of the Ocean (H. B., XIII., p. 673), bred by and the property of 
Mr. Eichard Booth. 

By his sire (the Warlaby bull Cardigan) Lord Adolphus is at once half 
Booth; there is also a fraction of Booth beyond. The dam of Lord Adol- 
phus, Lad}^ Annabella, was a daughter of Mr. Wetherell's finely bred bull 
Whittington, from Lady Ann by Noble, a Booth and Mason bull. The rest 
of the pedigree, with the exception of two crosses (Mr. Spearman's Newton 
and Captain Barclay's Emperor), consists of Chilton names. 

Queen of the Ocean closes our list. The first Royal bull was bred by 
Mr. Bates; the last Royal cow, by Mr. Booth. The Alpha and Omega are 
Bates and Booth. Queen of the Ocean is distinctively a representative 
cow; the embodiment of many generations of honored ancestors. Some 
of the choicest families belonging to the aristocracy of Short-horns are 
summed up in her. Beginning with Suwarrow and ending with Crown 
Prince, her pedigree, equally excellent in every part, comprehends a series 
of historic names identified with extraordinary merits and extraordinary 
successes. Her dam. Red Rose, was a breeder of winners. Within four 
years — that is, from the 5th November, 1854 — she gave birth to five calves, 
all of whom have distinguished themselves in the showyard; Queen of 



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May, Queen Mab, Lord of the Valley, Queen of the Vale, and the subject 
of the present remarks, Queen of the Ocean. 

From the preceding list it appears that at the twenty-yearly exhibitions 
of the Royal Society, fourteen first prizes in the first Class for bulls and for 
cows were taken by animals of pure Booth blood; thirteen cows and one 
bull. Four of the winners were bred by Mr. John Booth; nine by Mr. 
Richard Booth, and one (Col. Towneley's Beauty) by Mr. Bannerman of 
Chorley. Nothing like this has been done by any other blood. The Bates 
and the Towneley animals come next in honors. Six of the former, in the 
hands respectively of Mr. Bates, Captain Gunter and Lord Feversham, and 
an equal number of the latter (though one of these was the pure Booth 
blood cow Beauty) have carried off first prizes. 

We add to the foregoing list, the prize awards of 1863: 

f WORCESTER, 1863. 

Duke of f yne (11751), bred by M. Spraggon, Nafferton Stocksfield, North- 
umberland; sire, " Richard Coeur de Lion" (13590); bred by Mr. Towneley, 
Towneley Park. 

'•Pride of Southwick," bred by Mr. Stewart, Southwick, Dumfries, Scot- 
land; sire, " Mac Turk" (14872); exhibited by Emily, Lady Pigot, Branches 
Park, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire. 



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PRIZE ANIMALS WHICH RECEIVED THE FIRST 
PREMIUM BY THE NEW YORK STATE AGRICUL- 
TURAL SOCIETY FROM 1841 TO 1863. 



1841. 

ARCHER (3028.) 

Bred by Francis Eotch, Otsego county, N. Y., the property of J. M. Sher- 
wood, Auburn. Calved in 183T. Got by Kolla (4991). ,Dam (Adeliza) 
bred by Mr. Whittaker, by Frederick (E. H. B., vol. 4, p. 26.) >■ 



Bred by Francis Rotch, the property of J. M. Sherwood, Auburn, N. Y. 
Calved in 1836. Got by North Star (2382). Dam, Stately, by Young Den- 
ton (963). (E. H. B., vol. 5, p. 971.) 

\ 1842. 

^ NERO. 

Bred by and the property of E. P. Prentice, Albany, N. Y. Calved Au- 
gust 14th, 1837. Got by Ajax (2944). Dam (Prim). (E. H. B., vol.4, p. 327.) 

STELLA. 

(See above.) 

^ 1843. 

MAY DUKE. 

Bred by Hon. Adam Fergusson, Woodhill, C. W., the property of L. F. 
Allen, Black Rock, N. Y. Calved February 18th, 1837. Got by Agricola 
(imp.), (1614) out of Cherry, [bred by Mr. James Chimp, Northumberland, 
England.] (A. H. B., vol. 1, p. 115.) 

PANSY 2d. 

Bred by jGen. Stephen Van Rensselaer, Albany, the property of J. M. 
Sherwood, Auburn; calved August 29th, 1836. Got by Ajax (2944) out 
of Sprightly by Washington (1566); Pansey by Blaize (76). (A. H. B., vol. 
1, p. 210.) 

1844. 

METEOR. 

Bred by and the property of George "Vail, Troy. Calved 25th July, 1841. 
Got by Duke of Wellington, 55, (3654) [imp. by G. Vail] out of Duchess, 
[imp. by Mr. Vail, bred by Mr. Bates] by Duke of Northumberland (1940.) 
(A. H. B., vol. 1. p. 115.) 



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RED LADY, 

Bred by , the property of James Lenox, Poiig-hkeepsie, N. Y. 

Calved in 1834. Got by Hubback, (2142); dam by Don Jiian (1923.) 
(E. H. B., vol. 5, p. 841.) 

1845. 

O'CONNKLL. 

Bred by and the property of E. P. Prentice, Albany. Calved 11th Janu- 
ary, 1842. Got by Sir Peter (5113); dam, (Moss Rose) by Barden (1674.) 
(E. H. B., vol. 4, p. 685.) 

PHILOPENA. 

Bred by and the property of J. M. Sherwood, Auburn. Califed 1842. 
Got by Archer (3028); dam, Pansy 2d, by Ajax (2944). (E. H. B.) (A. H. 
B., vol. 1. p. 212.) 

1846. 

SYMMETRY. 

Bred by George Vail, Troy, the propertj^ of J. M. Sherwood, Auburn, N. 
Y. Calved 30th July, 1842. Got by Duke of Welling-ton, 55, (3654) out 
of Duchess by Puke of Northumberland (1940). (A. H. B., vol 1, p. 131.) 

LADY BARRINGTON. 

Bred by Mr. Bates, England, the property of George Vail, Troy. Calved 
1829. Got by a son of Herdsman (304); dam (Young Alicia) by Wonder- 
ful (TOO.) (E. H. B., vol. 1, 2 and 3., 1841, p. 390.) 

MARIUS. 

Bred by Earl Spencer, imported by Mr. Oliver, Westchester county, N". 
Y. Calved 1842. Got by Roman (2561); dam, Sophia, by Waverly (2820), 
the property of Bell & Morris, Fordham, N. Y. (E. II. B., vol 2, p. 181.) 

HILPA. 

Bred by T. Bates, England; imported by and the property of George Vail, 
Troy. Calved May 23d, 1840. Got by Cleveland Lad (3407,) out of Hawk- 
eye, (vol. 1, p. 185) by Red Rose Bull (2493), by Rex (1375,) bred by Mr. 
Richardson. (A. H. B., vol. 2, p. 400.) 

1848. 

METEOR 2d. 

Bred by George Vail, Troy; owned by Z. B. Wakeman, Herkimer, N. Y. ; 
calved 1845. Got by Meteor (11811,) by Duke of Wellington (3654) im- 
ported; bred by Thomas Bates, Kirkleavington. Dam, Young Willey got 
by York out of Old Willey, imported. (A. H. B., Vol. 1, p. 238). 

1849. 

3d duke of CAMBRIDGE (5941). 

Bred by Thomas Bates, Eng.; the property of J. M. Sherwood, Auburn; 
got by Duke of Northumberland (1940) out of Waterloo 3d by Belvidere 



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(n06), Waterloo 1st by Waterloo (2816), Lady Antrim by Waterloo (2816). 
(A. H. B., Vol. 2, p. 244). 

CHARLOTTE. 

Bred by E. P. Prentice, Mount Hope, Albany; the property of S. P. 
Chapman, Clockville; calved Nov, 1840; got by Leopard (4213), out of 
Matilda by White Jacket (5647). 

' 1850. 

3n DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, (5941). 

Above received certificate. 

ESTERVILLE 3d. 

Brcd%y E. P. Prentice, Mount Hope, Albany; the property of George 
Vail, Troy; calved Sept. 1846; got by O'Connell (6258), out of Esterville 
2d by Dan'O'Connell (3557). (A. H. B., Vol. 2, p. 369). 

1851. 

EARL OF SEAHAM (10181). 

Bred by John Stephenson, Eng.; imported by and the property of A. 
Stevens and J. M. Sherwood, Auburn; got by Earl of Antrim (10174), out 
of Primrose by Napier (6238). (A. H. B., Vol, 2, p. 138). 

AZALEA. 

Bred by ; the property of L. G. Morris, Fordham; calved May 11, 

1843; got by Magnum Bonum; dam (Victoria) by Lewellyn. (L. G. 3Ior- 
ris' Catalogue of 1854). 

1852. 

HALTON (11552). 

Bred by George Vail, Troy; the property of S. P. Chapman, Clockville, 
Madison Co.; calved March 27, 1855; got by Meteor 104 (11811), out of 
imp. Lady Barrington 3d by Cleaveland Lad (3407). (A. H. B., Vol. 2, 
p. 156). 

RED ROSE 2d. 

Bred by John Stephenson, England; calved Nov. 1846; got by Napier 
(6238) out of Tuberose by South Durham (5281); the property of John M. 
Sherwood, Auburn, N. Y. (A. H. B., Vol. 2, p. 532). 

1853. 

ROMEO (1369). 

Bred bj^ the Marquis of Sxeter, Burghley Park, Eng.; the property of 
Morris and Becar, New York; calved April, 1850; got by Columbus (10063), 
dam (Juliet) by Fairfax Royjil (6987). (E. H. B., Vol. 11, p. 229). 

OXFORD 13th. 
Bred by the executors of Mr. Bates, Eng. ; the property of N. J. Becar, 
New York; calved January 7th, 1850; got by 3d Duke of York (10166) 



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out of Oxford 5th by Duke of Northumberland (1940). (A. H. B. Vol. 4, 
p. 504). 

1854. 

PRINCE ROYAL (880). 

Bred by Henry Wells, Aurora, New York; the property of Thomas 
Gould, same place; calved August 15th, 1851 ; got by Duke of "Wellington 
55, out of ProOtable 2d by Duke of Wellington 55. (A. H. B., Vol. 2, p. 
216). 

PHCEBE 1th. 

Bred by J. F. Sheafe; the property of L. Spencer, Williamsbridge, West- 
chester Co.; calved April, 1850; got by Duke of Exeter, 449, (10152) out 
of Phcebe 4th by Pontiac 125. (A. H. B., Vol. 2, p. 501). 

1855. 

CAYUGA. 

Bred by John E. Page, Sennett, Cayuga county; the property of John 
Grant, Elbridge, N. Y. ; got by Old Splendor ; 167, out of Gipsy 2d, by 
Damon 48; Gipsy by Washington (1566.) (A. H. B., vol. 2, p. 112.) 

DUCHESS. 

Bred by, and the property of S, P. Chapman, Cloekville, Madison county, 
N. Y.; calved June 25th, 1849; got by Duke of Wellington 55, (3654), out 
of Matilda by White Jacket (5641); Hart [bred by and imp. by the late 
Thos. Hollis, formerly of Blythe, England.] (A. H. B., vol. 2, p. 355.) 

1856. 

MAJESTY, 
t 

Bred by Ambrose Stevens, Batavia, N. Y.; the property of Thomas Gould, 
Aurora; calved Julj"^ 23d, 1853; got by imp. Wolviston (1109); out of Ger- 
trude by Paular, 807; Snowstorm by Duke of Wellington (3654.) (A. H. 
B., vol 3, p. 151.) 

BLOSSOM 2d. 

Bred by George Vail, Troy; the property of 0. Howland, Auburn, N. Y.; 
got by imported Duke of Wellington (3654). (E. H. B., vol. 4, p. 148.) 
Bred by Thomas Bates, Kirkleavington, England. Dam, Blossom, bred by 
Seth Hastings, Brainard's Bridge, N. Y.; got by Rockingham. 

1857. 

ECHO OF OXFORD (12821.) 

Bred by N. J. Becar, Smithtown, L. I.; the property of E. Marks, Camil- 
lus, N. Y.; calved January 25, 1854; got by Romeo (13169); out of Oxford 
13th, by 3d Duke of York (10166.) (A. H. B., vol. 3, p. 96.) 

DAIRY MAID. ^ 

Bred by Ralph Wade, Esq., Coburg, Canada; the property of James 0. 
Sheldon, Geneva, N. Y.j calved January, 1850; got by American Belted 
LS.H.] § 



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Will (12394); out of Clarentine, by George (12939.) (E. H. B., vol. 11, 
p. 12.) 

1858. 

DUKE OF OXFORD (2780.) 

Bred by L. G. Morris, Fordham, N. Y.; the property of Ezra Cornell, 
Ithaca; calved July 27th, 1855; got by Duke "of Gloster (11382); out of 
Oxford 17, by Lamartine (11662.) (A. H. B., vol. 4, p. 87.) 

CLOVER. 

Bred by, and the property of Samuel Thorne, Thornedale, Washington 
Hollow, Dutchess county, N. Y.; calved April 5, 1855; got by Grand Duke 
(10284); out of Countess, by Third Duke of Oxford (9047.) (A. H. B., vol. 
4, p. 302.) 

1859. 

HIAWATHA (1663.) 

Bred by Samuel Thorne, Washington Hollow, Dutchess county, N. Y.; 
the property of John R. Page, Sennett; calved November 22, 1855; got by 
Young Balco (12426), 1124; out of Diana Gwynne, by Duke of Lancaster 
(10929.) (A. H. B., vol. 5, p. 94) 

MRS. GWYNE. 

Bred by, and the property of Samuel Thorne, Washington Hollow, Dutch- 
ess county, N. Y.; calved April 18th, 1856; got by Grand Duke (10284); 
out of Mystery, by Usurer (9763.) (A. H. B., vol. 4, p. 481.) 

1860. 

ALTORP (2494.) 

Bred by Samuel Thorne, Washington Hollow, Dutchess county, N. Y. ; 
the property of Cooper Sayre, Oaks Corners, Ontario county; calved Sept. 
29th, 1857; got by Neptune (11847); out of Agnes, by Lord Brawith 
(10645.) (A. H. B., vol. 4, p. 29.) 

MIDGE. 

Bred by R. A. Alexander, Kentucky; the property of James 0. Sheldon, 
Geneva, N. Y.; calved 29th November, 1856; got by Grand Master (12968); 
dam Rosabella, by Bridegroom (11203.) (Mr. Sheldon's Catalogue, 1864.) 

1861. 

apricot's gloster. 
Bred by and the property of Cass & Butts, Manlius, N. Y.; calved Jan- 
uary 15, 1858; got by Duke of Gloster (11382) out of Apricot, by 3d Duke 
of York (10166). (A. H. B., Vol. 5, p. 18). 

BRIGHT EYES 6tH. 

Bred by S. P. Chapman, Clockvillc, Madison Co., N. Y., the property of 
George Butts, Manlius, N. Y.; calved March 14th, 1856; got by Halton, 
556 (11552), out of imp. Bright Eyes 3d, by Earl Derby (10177). (A. H. 
B., Vol. 3, p. 325). 



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1862. 
rwNCE OF WALES (18630) E. H. B. (5100) A. H. B. 
Roan, calved July 12th, 1858; bred by R. Syme, Red Kirk, Scotland; 
imp. and owned by Georg-e Miller, Markham, Canada West; got by Tweed- 
side (12246) out of Silky, by Baron of Kidsale (11156); Lady by Remus 
(1198t); Young Lady Bird by Strathmore (6547); Lady Bird 2d by Play- 
fellow (6297)— by Scrip (2604)— by Thorington (5472). 

BERTHA. 

Bred by Samuel Thorne, Thornedale, N. Y.; the property of E. Griffen, 
Clinton Corners, Dutchess Co., N. Y.; calved March, 1859; got by Duke of 
Thornedale, 2787, out of Gloster's Bloom, by Duke of Gloster (11382); 
Bloom by Sir Leonard (10827). (See A. H. B., Vol, 6, p. 197.) 

1863. 

HOTSPUR. 

Bred by the Executors of Wm. Harison, Morley Farm, Morley, St. Law- 
rence Co., N. Y.; the property of T. L. Harison, same place; calved May 
15, 1860; got by Duke of Gloster (11382), 2763, out of Daphne, by Harold 
(10299). (A. H. B. Vol. 5, p. 96). 

BLOOMING HEATHER. 

Bred by Samuel Thorne, Thornedale, Washington Hollow, Dutchess Co., 
N. Y.; the property of Geo. H. Brown, same place; calved April 23, 1860; 
got by 2d Grand Duke (12961), out of Gloster's Bloom, by Duke of Glos- 
ter (11382). (A. H. B., Vol. 6, p. 200). 

Awards for Imported Cattle — shown in separate Class. 

1854. 

BALCO (9918). 

Bred by Thomas Bates, Eng. ; the property of Morris & Becar, New 
York; calved February 23d, 1849; got by 4th Duke of York (10167); dam 
(Wild Eyes 15th), by 4th Duke of Northumberland (3649.) (A. H. B., Vol. 
8, p. 42). 

BLOOM, 

Bred by Mr. Fowle, Northallerton, Eng.; the property of L. G. Morris, 
Fordham; calved January, 1850; got by Sir Leonard (10287); dam (El- 
vira), by ^olus (3738), (E. H. B., Vol. 11, 840).) » 

1855. 

ST. NICHOLAS (13663), 

Bred by Mr. J. M. Hopper, Newham Grange; the property of Hunger- 
ford, Brodie & Converse, Ellisburgh, Jeff. Co.; calved in February, 1S53; 
got by Master Bellville (11795); dam (Zenobia 2d), by Belleville (6787). 
(E. H. B., Vol. 11, p. 236). 

FKANTIO. 

Bred by Robert Bell, Lancaster, Eng.; imp. by and the property of Geo. 



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Vail, Troy, and S. P. Chapman, Clockville, Madison Co., N. Y.; calved 
Sept. 3d., 1850; got by 4th Duke of York (10161), out of Faith by 4th 
Duke of Northumberland (3649). (A. H. B., Vol. 2, p. 389). 

1856. 

ST. NICHOLAS (13663.) 

Keceived certificate as best bull. (See above.) 

LADY NEWHAM. 

Bred by J. M. Hopper, Yorkshire, England; tlie property of Hungerford, 
Brodie & Converse, Ellisburgh, Jefferson county; calved March, 1853, got 
by Belleville {6118,) out of Matilda by Belleville (6778). Madeline by 
Newham (4563). (A. H. B., Vol. 5, p. 341.) 

1857. 

MISS BELLEVILLE. 

Bred bj' J. M. Hopper, Newham, Grange, England, the propertj'' of E. 
Marks, Camillus, N. Y.; calved February, 1853, got by Belleville (6778) 
out of Carnation by Goldsmith (10277.) (A. H. B., Vol. 4, p. 474.) 

1858. 

NEPTUNE (11847.) 

Bred by John Booth, Killerby, England; imported by Samuel Thorne, 
Washington Hollow, Dutchess county; the property of W. H. Slingerland 
& Co., Albany; calved Nov. 4, 1850, got by Water King (11024) out of 
Bloom by Buckingham (3239.) (A. H. B., Vol. 4, p. 165.) 

FINELLA. 

Bred by S. E. Bolden, Lancashire, England, the property of W. H. Slin- 
gerland & Co., Albany; calved June 30, 1852, got by Grand Duke (10284) 
out of Fay, by Faugh-a-Ballagh (8083.) (A. H. B., Vol 4, p. 353.) 

1859. 

GRAND TURK (12969.) 

Bred by S. E. Bolden, Lancaster, England; the property of Samuel 
Thorne, AVashington Hollow, Dutchess county, N. Y.; calved Dec. 31, 1852, 
got by Grand Duke (10284) out of Young Rachael, by Leonard (4210.) (A. 
H. B., Vol. 4, p. 116.) 

LALLA ROOKH. 

Bred by Mr. Townely, Townely Park, Burnley, England; the property 
of Samuel Thorne, Washington Hollow, Dutchess county; calved Dec. 3d, 
1851; got by The Squire (12217) out of Laviuia, by Prince Ernst (4818.) 
(A. H. B., Vol. 3, p. 490.) 

1860. 

GRAND DUKE OF OXFORD (16184.) 

Bred by Capt. Gunter, at the Grange, Wetherby, England; the property 
of James 0. Sheldon, Geneva; calved July 29, 1856, got by 2nd Grand 
Duke (12961) out of Oxford 11th, by 4th Duke of York (10167.) (A. H. 
B., Vol. 5, p. 87.) 

DINAH GWYNNE. 

Bred by J. S. Tanqueray, Middlesex, England; imported by Samuel 
Thorne, Thornedale, N. Y., the property of J. R. Page, Sennett, N. Y. ; got 
by Balco (0918.) (A. H. B., Vol. 2, p. 352.) 



INDEX. 



FAGS 

Mr. Bates' " Duchess " 3 

" Duke of Northumberland " 4 

improved Short-horns 6 

letters to Mr. Parkinson ;. . . . T, 8, 16 

Bull " Sir Thomas Fairfax" 10 

Mr. Parkinson to Mr. Bates 14, 15 

Short-horn prize animals, 1839 to 1863 18-29 

Prize animals New York State fairs, 1841 to 1863 30-36 



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